2010
January 2010
Monday 18 January 2010
Mon 18 Jan, 7 pm. 401 South Broad Street, Philadelphia, 19103. 215-446-3045. Gershman Y Jewish Community Center - [email][events]
Documentaries & Dialogue -- Philadelphia Premiere Director: Date 2006 Country USA R/T 75 minutes Monday, January 18, 2010, 7 PM $8 in advance, $10 at the door Inheritance, like its title, is about a family legacy, this time concerning the offspring of a villainous Nazi perpetrator who feels the sins of her father so strongly that she seeks out one of his victims. Monika Hertwig's father was Amon Goeth, the inspiration for Ralph Fiennes' character in Schindler’s List. Hertwig succeeds in finding and interviewing the eloquent Helen Jonas-Rozensweig, who was one of Goeth's slaves when he was the commandant of the Plaszów concentration camp in Poland. Special Guest Speaker: Marcia Sachs Littell, Professor, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, The Richard Stockton